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State Farm in October placed its name on one of the buildings under construction at the company's new Richardson campus. (Ron Baselice/The Dallas Morning News)

State Farm is still hiring even as it prepares to move its first set of employees into its new Richardson campus later this month.

The nation’s largest auto and home insurer will hold a job fair on Jan. 15 in Richardson for several hundred full-time and part-time positions in claims, sales, customer service and information technology departments this year.

The job fair will take place in three blocks of time: from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will be held at the North Dallas Hyatt Regency Hotel, 701 E Campbell Road, Richardson.

This is the sixth job fair State Farm has held in North Texas since in the last two years. The company hired about 2,500 people in the Dallas area last year and 2,100 employees in 2013. It currently employs more than 5,800 people in the region.

Later this month, State Farm is scheduled to start moving employees into the first of four buildings that will make up its new campus in the CityLine development in Richardson. It plans to move staff into the second and third buildings in late 2015, and a fourth building in 2016.

A California-based investor has purchased one of the largest office blocks in Richardson’s Telecom corridor.

Spear Street Capital said Tuesday that it has bought the 800,000 square foot, 4-building Galatyn Park office complex located just east of North Central Expressway. The San Francisco-based investor had the propertyunder contract for several months.

The buildings are currently leased to State Farm Insurance and Bank of America.

State Farm will begin moving out of the project next year when it relocates to its new campus at the CityLine complex on Bush Turnpike. It’s leases expire starting in 2016.

The new owner plans to invest “significant capital” to remodel the buildings, add amenities and set up a shuttle service between the property and CityLine, according to Cassidy Turley, which has been hired to lease the property along with Peloton Commercial Real Estate.

HFF marketed the buildings for sale. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed.

The project was sold by a partnership headed by Dallas-based investor Champion Partners which acquired the properties in 2010 and 2013.

The buildings – which originally housed operations for Nortel Networks – were constructed between 1997 and 2000.

Founded in 2001, Spear Street Capital has invested in more than $3 billion in real estate nationwide.

It has significant holdings in the Austin area and also owns office buildings in Plano’s Legacy business park.

Corgan also designed the new State Farm Insurance campus in Richardson.

Toyota Motor Co. has chosen the architect for its new Plano headquarters campus.

Dallas-based Corgan – the same company that designed the huge new State Farm Insurance complex in Richardson – has been selected to design the international automaker’s North American headquarters.

The almost 100-acre corporate facility is being built at the southwest corner of Legacy Drive and State Highway 121.

“After a search that included some of the finest architectural firms in the world, we are thrilled to welcome Corgan as designers of our North American headquarters in Plano,” Doug Beebe, corporate manager of Administrative Services at Toyota, said in a statement. “Corgan is a world-class firm that has designed many beautiful corporate campuses and other projects, both here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and around the world.”

Toyota plans to move into the buildings in late 2016 or early 2017. The project is expected to total more than 1 million square feet.

Dallas-based developer KDC has been hired to build the office complex, which will house about 4,000 Toyota workers.

KDC is also building corporate campuses in the area for State Farm, FedEx Office and Raytheon.

The development in the CityLine project includes 21-story, 15-story and 13-story office buildings on the south side of Bush Turnpike at Plano Road.

KDC also plans to build a fourth 500,000-square-foot building for State Farm that will be completed in mid 2016.

State Farm starts moving into the completed buildings at the end of this year.

When finished, the 186-acre CityLine project is planned to contain about 6 million square feet of office space, two hotels, 3,925 multi-family residential units, 300,000 square feet of grocery, restaurant, entertainment and retail space and three parks.

Job seekers at a State Farm career fair in Richardson last summer. (Rex C. Curry/Special Contributor)

State Farm Insurance plans to host a job fair on July 22 in Richardson for part-time openings that will begin this fall.

Most of the hiring will be for about 200 customer service and support positions that require 20 hours to 24 hours of work a week, said Gary Stephenson, a regional spokesperson for State Farm.

It’s the fourth Dallas-area job fair State Farm has held since the beginning of last year as the company expands in North Texas.

The job fair will take place from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 701 East Campbell Road, Richardson. Job seekers can search and apply for jobs online.

A new State Farm regional campus will be located at the CityLine development in Richardson. The company plans to start using that location later this year and employees will start working there early next year, Stephenson said.

The job fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Renaissance Dallas-Richardson Hotel, 900 E. Lookout Dr., Richardson.Job seekers should complete an online application before the event.

This is State Farm’s third local job fair in the last eighteen months. It looked to fill 1,100 to 1,300 jobs in the previous two job fairs.

The insurer is building a new campus on 186 acres near the southwest corner of Wyndham Lane and Bush Turnpike that also will house apartments, hotels. State Farm plans to start moving employees into its new Richardson campus, which is under construction, late this year, said company spokesman Gary Stephenson.

Job applicants attended a job fair last summer held by State Farm in Richardson. (Rex C. Curry/Special Contributor)

Insurance giant State Farm will hold a job fair on Feb. 4 in Richardson to hire 600 to 700 more people during the first half of this year for its growing North Texas operations — and additional hiring is expected to continue throughout 2014.

The fair will focus on creating a “candidate pool” for full-time and part-time jobs in customer-service, call-center, claims, information technology, underwriting and sales support.

Applicants should fill out an online job application in advance to be considered for an on-site interview. More information can be found at the the Bloomington, Ill.-based insurance company’swebsite.

The job fair will take place from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 4 at the Renaissance Dallas-Richardson Hotel, 900 E Lookout Drive in Richardson.

Thousands of job applicants have attended job fairs last spring and summer held by State Farm to hire hundreds of workers for a new call center in Richardson as well as other local sites.

Developer KDC late Thursday announced plans to add a hotel, housing, a medical facility and a park to the mammoth development that will house a regional office for State Farm Insurance in Richardson.

The CityLine development near the Bush Turnpike in Richardson will include shops, apartments and a plaza. (Artist’s rendering: Omniplan.)

The project, to be called CityLine, will be located on 186 acres near the intersection of the George Bush tollway and Central Expressway.

“CityLine will be an instant city with a true urban environment,” said KDC’s Walt Mountford. “It’s adjacent to DART’s existing light rail station and is also surrounded by key highways and two major thoroughfares.”

The $600 million, 2.3 million-square-foot initial phase of CityLine is slated for completion in early 2015.

In addition to the 1.5 million square feet of office towers to be leased by State Farm, the initial phase will include development on KDC’s property west of Plano Road and adjacent to a DART light rail station.

The project will include more than 92,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space; a contemporary 150-room select service hotel and 520 new multi-family residential units.

Phase one also will include an 18,000-square-foot wellness and fitness facility; a 41,000-square-foot medical office building; and a 3.5-acre park with trails.

“I can’t think of another development that, upon opening, will completely integrate over 1.5 million square feet of office with retail, restaurant, entertainment, multi-family, medical, fitness, and hospitality uses into an exciting experience for all who live in DFW,” said Steve Van Amburgh, KDC’s chief executive.

A focal point of the initial phase will be CityLinePlaza, a centrally located plaza designed by Office of James Burnett, the landscape architect of Dallas’ Klyde Warren Park.

The plaza and project streets “are oriented and scaled specifically for pedestrians to encourage sidewalk and patio activity and to promote community interaction and gathering throughout the day,” said Aaron Stephenson of Retail Street Advisors.

The restaurant, retail and entertainment spaces will be integrated into the base of the office towers, the multi-family residential, and the hotel.

The master plan also focuses on creating a pedestrian-friendly environment, while providing easy access for vehicles and ample parking in the 7,700 spaces within CityLine parking garages.

In July, KDC broke ground on the project and announced State Farm will lease 1.5 million square feet in three office towers. The Class A office buildings consist of a 13-story tower, 15-story tower and 21-story tower. Each tower rests on a five-level parking structure along with ground floor retail space.

KDC acquired the land for theRichardsonmaster-planned project in December 2012.

The project, adjacent to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Bush Turnpike Station on its Red Line, will be a transit-oriented development on the east and west sides of Plano Road. The east side includes the 147.5 acres of land on the north side of Renner Road, between Plano Road and Wyndham Lane. The west side includes 38.5 acres of land south of President George Bush Turnpike between Plano Road and the DART light rail tracks.

When it is completed, CityLine will be a $1.5 billion project with about six million square feet of office space, two hotels, 3,925 multi-family residential units, 300,000 square feet of grocery, restaurant, entertainment and retail space, and three parks.

Corgan is the State Farm office architect and Omniplan is the CityLine retail architect and master planner.

More than 700 people showed up at a State Farm Career Fair today in Richardson — and that was with four hours to go on the first of two days.

Then, they waited up to an hour and a half for the first of several possible interviews.

That was for up to 700 jobs that State Farm Insurance Co. wants to fill in claims, service, and sales support in North Texas by year’s end. This spring, State Farm broke ground for a new campus on Plano Road just south of State Highway 190 in Richardson that will employ thousands of workers.

Job seekers were lined up outside the Renaissance Dallas-Richardson Hotel, 900 East Lookout Drive, Richardson, at 8 a.m. even though it didn’t start until 10 a.m., said Patti Kelly, a spokeswoman for State Farm. Then, they waited up to an hour and a half for the first of several possible interviews.

The job fair ends at 8 p.m. today, but also runs from 8 a.m. through 3 p.m. tomorrow.

Most of the job openings are entry-level positions, but the company also is hiring some technical and professional level positions. Some of the jobs are for people who are bilingual in Spanish.

State Farm leases this building in Richardson.

“Many of the candidates have the skill sets that match our customers’ needs,” Kelly said. State Farm hired 500 people as a result of a March job fair in Richardson (1,700 people attended), she said.

The Illinois-based insurance giant has been expanding fast in North Texas. Whiles the company’s new Richardson campus is being built over the next 18 months, it is leasing an office building on Galatyn Park in Richardson.